We’ve had many insiders contacting us to say they are not happy with the culture and the unethical practices inside the big 4 firms they work for. Hearings will conclude in Feb and our report is due in March. Just want to say thank you to all those who’ve come forward so far.
Red Sea Crisis: Houthis Demonstrate Increased Capability, Coalition Demonstrates Increased Presence Naval News
Greyhound Day: World War II Combat Tactics Return To The Red Sea gCaptain. Very detailed.
The Red Sea attacks are throwing supply chains into chaos — but US oil exports appear to be benefiting from them Business Insider
UN Security Council demands Houthis stop Red Sea shipping attacks Al Jazeera
NY Times: IRS To Begin Trial Of Its Own Free Tax-Filing System
Until we have political and corporate leadership that serves the community and not powerful individuals, nothing will prevent another Post Office scandal
The Guardian says this of the Post Office sub-postmaster accounting scandal this morning: At its heart, this extraordinary saga is about a group of workers
Read the full article…
Fightback Spam: how to beat those dirty data rats
We are spammed relentlessly but when Aussie Home Loans and Accredible spammed Andy Schmulow, they bit off more than they could chew. Andy shows us how to bam the spammers.
British Library to burn through reserves to recover from cyber attack
FT.com [read free]: “The British Library will drain about 40 per cent of its reserves to recover from a cyber attack that has crippled one of the UK’s critical research bodies and rendered most of its services inaccessible. The London-based institution, which stores nearly 170mn pieces of work ranging from books to sound recordings, was forced offline in October after a “deep and extensive” ransomware attack.
Hackers published hundreds of thousands of stolen files online, including customer and personnel data, after the library refused to pay a £600,000 ransom. But it will now be forced to spend about 10 times that amount rebuilding most digital services at an estimated cost of £6mn-£7mn, according to a person familiar with the matter, consuming a sizeable proportion of its £16.4mn in unallocated reserves.
The British Library’s online catalogue remains unavailable. Physical sites are open, but users must wait while librarians run through logs and find items on shelves.
The British Library said it was in “close and regular contact” with its government sponsor, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, but no formal bid had been made for government funds and it “maintains its own financial reserve to help address unexpected issues”…”
Mouse filmed tidying up man’s shed every nightBBC
Wild Burros: Saucy Symbols of the Silver State Travel Nevada
Moon’s resources could be ‘destroyed by thoughtless exploitation’, Nasa warned Guardian
2023 Word of the Year is “enshittification”American Dialect Society
The Art Scene Is Dead and the Liberal Class Killed It Russel Dobular. Kevin W: “Saw this guy on Jimmy Dore and it is sad reading.”
Elon Musk Isn’t Getting Enough Sleep Matt Levine, Bloomberg. You have to click through to see what the piece is really about: “Is Elon Musk’s drug use securities fraud?”
Coimisiún na Meán go off the rails The Gist. Paul R hoists: “”The Irish State announced its new plan to build a porn preference register for most of the EU, amongst other mad things.”
Media Report Card January 2024
The Connors Institute Media Report Card January 2024 – This report has two lists, and the methodology used for both – [you are no doubt reading media on both] –
“The Connors List of Trustworthy Sources – It is important for Americans to maintain a healthy media diet that offers an accurate account of the news of the day with limited bias. The outlets on our list of trustworthy sources below have recently been scrutinized by independent analysts using rigorous, objective, and rule-based procedures and found to demonstrate a pattern of generally accurate reporting with limited bias…and Sources that fell short. The outlets below have recently been scrutinized by independent analysts using the same rigorous, objective, and rule-based methodologies as the sources on our trustworthy list, but the sources below missed the mark: they have demonstrated a pattern of reporting with too many inaccuracies and/or too much bias.”
